Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills

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Membre titulaire de la Société de Spéléologie, and Fellow of the American Geographical Society.
The illustrations for this volume are from photographs by the following artists:
The Views of Marble Cave, by Stone & De Groff, Warrensburg, Missouri.
The Tower of Babel, The Chimes, The Knife Blade, The Needle, The Bridal Veil, by Meddaugh, of Leadville, So. Dakota.
Top of Glacier, by L. W. Marble, Wind Cave, So. Dakota.
White Onyx Masses, Fairies' Palace, by J. W. Pike, Hot Springs, So. Dakota.
The Wilderness Pinery, by D. Benton Miller, Alton, Missouri.
Approaching Deadwood, by H. R. Locke & Co., Deadwood, So. Dakota.
TO MY MOTHER THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

The southern half of the State of Missouri, and the Black Hills of South Dakota, offer exceptionally delightful regions for the study of caves, or Speleology as it has been named, and the sister sciences of geology and geography at the same time. In fact it is impossible to study either without giving attention to the other two, and therefore, instead of being separate sciences, they are the three branches of a great scientific trinity.